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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	140	They are diurnal hunters and eat only what they catch themselves, usually one of the fleet Gorean antelopes or a wild bull, taken on the run and lifted in the monstrous talons to a high place, where it is torn to pieces and devoured.	10

Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	167	Intrigued by the hardness of the cage plastic encountered in the Vivarium I spoke to Misk and he and I, together with other Priest-Kings and humans, armored a fleet of transportation disks, which would be extremely effective if a silver tube were mounted in them and which, even if not armed, might y...	10
29	60	Even now two of the ships were moving their place, one to cover the area beneath the small fleet and the other above.	10

Book 6. (106 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	101	Nominally beneath these Ubars, but in fact much independent of them, is an oligarchy of merchant princes, Captains, as they call themselves, who, in council, maintain and manage the great arsenal, building and renting ships and fittings, themselves controlling the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the sla...	10
10	137	They further control another thousand ships, as executor, through the council, which ships comprise the members of the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the slave fleet, and others, as well as numerous patrol and escort ships.	10
14	283	At the treasure fleet itself, while most of her escort pursued my diversionary ships, the other eighteen vessels in my fleet had fallen, suddenly, silently, on the ten tarn ships left behind with the treasure fleet.	10
15	35	Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c...	10
10	123	A seaman, reportedly escaped from Cos, was telling of the preparation of a great fleet intending to sail against Port Kar, a fleet that would be enlarged by the forces of Tyros as well.	10
14	114	Whereas I did not know exactly the codes employed by the treasure fleet, I had little doubt that our hesitation was being signaled about the fleet, and then I heard other trumpets, and saw the round ships drawing apart, and tarn ships streaking between them, fanning out in our direction.	10
14	151	By this time, of course, the balance of my fleet, eighteen ram-ships, would have struck the treasure fleet, now protected only by some ten ram-ships, from the northwest.	10
16	181	Even had the fortunes I had brought from the treasure fleet been applied immediately after my return to the city, we could not, in the time, have outfitted a fleet to match that which must be descending upon us.	10
6	115	Then I saw, under the light of the torches, fleet as the tabuk, running, the dark-haired, lithe girl, she who was so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic.	10
7	17	I was not surprised to see that it was the dark-haired, lithe girl, who had been so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic, that was bound to the prow of the flagship of that small barge fleet.	10
10	17	Surbus had not been a particularly important captain, but he had been the master of a fleet of seven, now mine.	10
10	134	We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i...	10
10	147	It was voted that another dozen covered docks be raised within the confines of the arsenal, that the caulking schedules of the grain fleet might be met.	10
10	307	I now had the means whereby I might purchase yet two more ships for my fleet.	10
13	513	My treasures were soon increased considerably, and the number of ships in my fleet, by captured prizes, was radically augmented, so much so that I could not begin to wharf them within the lakelike courtyard of my holding.	10
13	516	My round ships, as much as possible, I engaged in commerce, usually acting on the advice of Luma, the slave girl, my chief accountant; the ram-ships I sent against Cos and Tyros, usually in twos and threes; I myself commonly commanded a fleet of five ram-ships, and spent much time searching the seas...	10
13	517	But in all this time I had not forgotten the treasure fleet which was due to sail from Tyros to Cos, bearing precious metals and jewels for her coffers, and a lovely lady, Vivina, to grace the couch of her Ubar.	10
13	520	It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn...	10
13	521	"Fleet off the port beam!" came the cry from the man in the basket, circling the masthead above.	10
14	66	The treasure fleet, with her escort, consisted of seventy ships; forty were ram-ships and thirty round ships.	10
14	69	There were no light galleys in either fleet.	10
14	79	On the other hand, the treasure fleet, under any conditions, would have a heavy escort, which it did.	10
14	83	Because of my practices in connection with round ships, I did not expect Cos and Tyros to enter them seriously into any naval engagement with my fleet.	10
14	89	With twelve ships I began to approach the treasure fleet from the southeast.	10
14	91	Then, rather bravely, the music drifting over the water, our oars at only half of maximum beat, we moved across the gleaming waters toward the large fleet.	10
14	94	I could hear, moreover, their war trumpets, carrying from one ship to the other, signaling fleet movements.	10
14	100	In about ten Ehn the decks of the treasure fleet, save for the paraphernalia of war, would be clear, and her hatches would be secured.	10
14	103	I did not wish to approach the fleet too rapidly.	10
14	104	The treasure fleet would have no way of knowing that I definitely knew her size and composition.	10
14	107	Then, when I saw the perimeter ships of the treasure fleet swinging about toward me, I motioned for the musicians to discontinue their performance.	10
14	124	Some of these were from the enemy fleet.	10
14	127	I listened to the flutes and drums of the ram-ships of the treasure fleet.	10
14	143	The treasure fleet itself lay to.	10
14	262	"Oar-master," said I, "we have an appointment with the treasure fleet of Cos and Tyros".	10
14	272	"Helmsmen," said I, "take your course now for the treasure fleet of Cos and Tyros".	10
14	276	* * * * Matters had proceeded as I had expected at the treasure fleet.	10
14	279	As my other eleven ships, one by one, began to return to the treasure fleet, the story was similar with them.	10
14	280	Some of the enemy ships, however, in turning back from the chase, had been able to regroup and somewhere, abroad on Thassa, there was doubtless a fleet of some ten enemy tarn ships, still a possible threat.	10
14	281	They had not yet returned to the treasure fleet.	10
14	284	Using, on the whole, elementary triangle tactics, wherein an attack by two ships, from different quadrants, is made on a single ship, which can face but one of the attackers, my ships had, in a short time, less than an Ahn, destroyed seven of the ten ram-ships left behind at the treasure fleet.	10
14	286	Some of the round ships, intelligently, had scattered, but, of the thirty originally in the fleet, there were now twenty-two ringed with our vessels.	10
14	287	And another was soon herded in by one of my ram-ships, which, in returning to the fleet, had picked it up.	10
14	291	Accordingly, as soon as a sufficient number of my ships had returned to the treasure fleet, I set about organizing a pursuit of the missing round ships.	10
14	297	This left, after the last of my original eleven ships had returned, twenty of my ships with the treasure fleet, more than enough to counter any returning enemy tarn ships.	10
14	316	And the flag she flew was bordered with gold, the admiral's flag, marking that vessel as the flagship of the treasure fleet.	10
14	325	And their rowing slaves, by this time, were fully aware that the fleet encircling them was that of Bosk, from the marshes.	10
14	331	In an Ahn I stepped across the plank thrown from the rail of the Dorna to that of the flagship of the treasure fleet.	10
14	334	"I am Rencius Ho-Bar," said he, "of Telnus, Admiral of the Treasure Fleet of Cos and Tyros".	10
14	346	"Admiral!" said the admiral of the treasure fleet to me.	10
14	350	"Admiral!" protested the admiral of the treasure fleet to me.	10
14	356	"Surely enough," said he, "to make us all among the richest of men!" "More wisely spent," said I, "these goods would go to increase the arsenal fleet of Port Kar".	10
14	359	Eighteen of the ships in my fleet had been arsenal vessels.	10
14	403	"The Lady Vivina," I said to him, "will of course grace the prow of this ship, the flagship of the treasure fleet".	10
14	407	"Take then those that were with her," I said, "and distribute them to the extent of their number among our other ships, the twenty most beautiful to our twenty tarn ships now with the fleet, and the most beautiful of that twenty to the prow of the Dorna, and the other twenty set at the prows of twen...	10
14	452	I had the admiral of the treasure fleet, Rencius Ho-Bar of Telnus, in his chains, brought before me.	10
14	470	Let two remain on the far side of the treasure fleet.	10
14	472	The seventeen ships are not to enter battle unless accompanied by the Dorna, and under no conditions, if battle ensues, are any of my ships to move more than four pasangs from the fleet".	10
14	476	Seventeen soon began to move around the fleet, or come about, to face the approaching twelve vessels.	10
14	481	The enemy fleet, the twelve ships, was now, by estimate from the lookout, with his glass, some four pasangs distant.	10
15	2	I wore the purple of a fleet admiral, with a golden cap with tassel, and gold trim on the sleeves and borders of my robes, with cloak to match.	10
15	13	I stood at the prow of the long, purple ship, which had been the flagship of the treasure fleet.	10
15	50	In the five days it had taken to reach Port Kar from the scene of the engagement with the treasure fleet, due to the slowness of the round ships, I had not kept Vivina, and her maidens, of course, at the prows of the ships.	10
15	53	I received her in the admiral's cabin, which was, of course, on the treasure fleet's flagship.	10
15	58	She had had, of course, a luxurious cabin in the flagship of the treasure fleet, this very ship.	10
15	62	"Take this lady," said I to them, "in a long boat to the largest of the round ships, one rowed by captured officers of the treasure fleet, and chain her there, with other treasures, in the rowing hold".	10
15	481	This afternoon I had presented her, with her maidens, in the chains of slave girls, together with portions of the treasures of the treasure fleet, and accountings of the balance thereof, before the Council of Captains of Port Kar.	10
16	182	"What would be your estimate of the size of the fleet of Cos and Tyros," I asked Tab.	10
16	188	The fleet would consist, according to my information, of forty-two hundred ships, twenty-five hundred from Cos and seventeen hundred from Tyros.	10
16	191	It seemed that only the departure date of the fleet had eluded my spies.	10
16	195	The council and I had apparently miscalculated the damage done by the capture of the treasure fleet to the war plans of Cos and Tyros.	10
16	196	We had not expected the launching of the fleet to take place until the spring.	10
16	284	I had no hopes that Port Kar could muster enough ships to fend off the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros.	10
17	5	The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from...	10
17	10	Our fleet was further supplemented by some fourteen hundred ships furnished by private captains, minor captains of Port Kar, most of which were round ships.	10
17	16	None of the ships of the Ubars Eteocles or Sullius Maximus had been pledged to the fleet, nor, of course, none of those of Henrius Sevarius, under the command of his regent, Claudius, once of Tyros.	10
17	32	The attacking fleet, in order to provide its net to prevent escape from Port Kar, had overextended its lines.	10
17	38	The balance, the great majority of ships in the joint fleet, thus, would remain, at least for the time, unengaged, apart from the battles.	10
17	47	The predesignation of fighting pairs, incidentally, and my injunctions to refuse to engage singly if possible, even withdrawing from equal odds, I am told, was new in Gorean naval warfare, though the pairing principle, on a more informal basis, is as old as the triangle tactic, which may be remember...	10
17	57	It was my hope that by the time they arrived at the engagement the fleet of Cos and Tyros, responding to my first two waves, would have shortened their lines and concentrated their ships.	10
17	85	The flanking attack, of course, was mounted as late as it was because, until the fleet of Cos and Tyros had shortened their lines and concentrated their ships, to meet our earlier moves, it would have been impractical.	10
17	86	Hopefully, the terror of being taken in the flank might cause many captains, or even Chenbar himself, to have the fleet put about, and, if so, this would make their ships the most vulnerable to our own.	10
17	139	The ships of my first wave had now struck the lines of the fleet of Cos and Tyros.	10
17	172	As they deepened their lines I could now see the borders of their fleet, as I had not been able to before.	10
17	178	And simultaneously with the initiation of the pincers attack the balance of my fleet, the reserves, fifty-five tarn ships, should draw within signal distance of the Dorna.	10
17	194	I had watched my first wave break in dozens of places the long lines of Cos and Tyros, and had seen the ships of the great fleet turn to face them, and had witnessed their vulnerability to the slender second wave of ships, each wreaking destruction beyond what might be expected of their sizes and we...	10
17	197	And then I had seen fleet ships, in their fifties, come about to move against what they had taken to be a new wave of round ships, only to be taken off-guard by the rams and shearing blades of ships as swift and terrible as their own.	10
17	202	I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades.	10
17	363	I saw that the fleets of my fifth wave, the two fleets of forty ships apiece, under the command of Chung and Nigel, were well engaged in their strikes on the flanks of the great fleet.	10
17	437	"Fight!" I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, against the wind, took flight and Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the manacles of a common slave, swung free below us, helpless and pendant in the furies of the wind and the sleeting rain, the captive of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar, a...	10
18	8	"The fleet of Cos and Tyros is putting about! They fly!" I shook with emotion.	10
18	12	Men ran to signal ships among the reserves, that they might draw toward our engaged fleet, recalling it.	10
18	19	"Set the storm sail!" Men hastened to do what I had told them, and, as they did so, I sent signals to reserve ships, to be conveyed to the balance of the fleet, that they might save themselves while they could.	10
18	61	I knew that the ships of Eteocles and Sullius Maximus had not been added to our fleet.	10
18	70	When the storm abated, whether in hours or in one or two days, the fleet would put about and return to Port Kar.	10
18	134	Far below I saw the Dorna, lifting and falling in the troughs of the waves, and, separated from her, the ships of the fleet, round ships and tarn ships, storm sails set, oars dipping, flying before the storm.	10
18	136	Terence of Treve, mercenary captain of the tarnsmen, had refused to return to Port Kar before the return of the fleet.	10
18	141	The bird could not fly a direct line to Port Kar, because of the wind, and we managed an oblique path, cutting away from the fleet.	10
18	163	Our blades were unsheathed, those of an admiral of the fleet and a slave boy.	10
18	210	"Now, Slave," said I to Fish, "you should have stayed with the fleet".	10
18	233	"The fleet?" he asked.	10
18	371	"I expect," she said, after a time, "the fleet will return in a few hours, and we shall be saved".	10
18	372	Surely she knew the fleet, as well as I, had been driven pasangs south, and would not be able to reach the harbor of Port Kar for another two or three days, at the least.	10
18	373	"Yes," I said, "in a few hours the fleet will return and we shall be saved".	10
18	463	"You know," I said, "the keep will be overrun and most of us, the men, at least, will be slain?" "The fleet will come," she said.	10
18	639	The rest of the fleet was still doubtless a hundred or more pasangs to the south.	10
18	784	The fleet will doubtless return within four or five days".	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	454	To my dismay, terrified, frantic, her eyes wide, hands extended, fleet as a tabuk, Ute was fleeing back down the trail.	10
13	742	Marlenus had set a swift fleet of light, Vosk galleys to clear the river waters adjoining his Ubarate of pirates.	10
17	480	This house has withstood a siege of thousands, within the last two years, in the time of the warrings of the Ubars and the Council of Captains, and the great engagement between the fleet of Port Kar and that of Tyros and Cos, on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of A...	10

Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	511	He had even been with the fleet on the 25th of the Se'Kara.	10
13	44	Another tapestry, showing numerous ships, in a war fleet, dated from the time of the famine in Torvaldsland, a generation ago.	10
13	293	"No one, not an army or a fleet," cried another, "could take the daughter of so powerful a Jarl as Thorgard of Scagnar!" "You seem to ask the impossible, my Jarl," observed Ivar Forkbeard.	10
15	46	In their march south, the fleet of Thorgard of Scagnar would cover their western flank.	10
15	48	The fleet, further, could, if necessary, provision the advancing horde and, if necessary, if danger should threaten, evacuate large portions of it.	10

Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	226	But Ar had no navy, though it did have a fleet of river ships that patrolled the Vosk.	10

Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	70	"We did not wish to risk the great fleet," it said.	10
32	81	"That is why the great fleet is not being risked?" I asked.	10
32	83	"I could urge the launching of the great fleet.	10
34	19	It would be located by the invasion fleet by virtue of its position.	10
35	1276	This signal, which can also be received by the probe ships and the fleet, will inform them of the destruction of the complex, the loss of these munitions and supplies".	10
35	1299	"The signal to the worlds, the ships, the fleet, is transmitted.	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	484	Ar has no navy, being an inland power, but it has developed a fleet of river ships and these, often, skirmish with the river ships of Cos, usually built in Cos, transported to the continent and carried overland to the river.	10
6	116	"Convey our greetings to the fleet!" called Ulafi from the stern castle, putting down his glass of the builders.	10
6	144	Shoka indicated that the two girls should rise and come to stand by the rail, to look out and see the fleet.	10
6	178	I had seen the passing of the fleet of the black slavers of Schendi.	10
6	185	We had lain to after more closely approaching the port of Schendi in the evening of the preceding day, the day in which we had seen the fleet of the black slavers of Schendi.	10
17	15	"The money," said Msaliti, in fury, "is being invested in the formation of a fleet of a hundred ships, fully fitted and supplied, and crewed by fifty men each.	10
22	4	There had been three vessels, of the sort which had been prepared in Ianda and brought to Schendi, and then to Lake Ushindi by way of the Nyoka, part of the fleet which Bila Huruma was organizing to support the explorations of Shaba, navigating the Ua, into the far interior.	10
32	216	More than six varieties of anteater are also found here, and more than twenty kinds of small, fleet, single-horned tabuk.	10
33	30	Downriver, several pasangs away, small but unmistakable, moving in our direction, was a fleet of canoes and river vessels.	10
33	31	There must have been in the neighborhood of a hundred, oared river galleys, the balance of the fleet which had been prepared for Shaba's originally projected penetration of the Ua, and perhaps again as many canoes.	10

Book 15. (31 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	22	"The fleet of Ragnar Voskjard," had said Callisthenes, "can never join with the fleet of Policrates.	10
23	201	The classical question in this respect, almost universal on Gor, is "Wine, Master?" "Do you think, truly," asked Policrates, "that the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, fully rigged and fitted, can be here in twenty days?" "I see no difficulty in the matter," I assured him.	10
24	744	I must soon leave the holding of Policrates, theoretically to journey downriver to the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, that his fleet might be soon launched, that the two fleets, in fierce force, might overwhelm the garrisons of Ar's Station, and then of Port Cos, that the river, for hundreds of pasangs...	10
29	10	It had been my plan to gather sufficient ships, primarily from Port Cos and Ar's Station, to simulate the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, who would be expected by Policrates.	10
29	74	"You have heard my plan," I said, "that we muster ships and, under the cover of darkness, posing as the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, enter and take the stronghold of Policrates".	10
29	84	"Besides, how do I know this is not a pirate trick to lure the fleet of Ar's Station into an ambush in cramped waters?" "You have my word on it," said Callimachus, "the word of a warrior".	10
29	114	"Too, should there be any massing of pirate ships, we can meet them with the fleet of Port Cos".	10
29	128	"There is no drop of water in this river," said Aemilianus, quietly, "which we of Ar's Station may not put beneath the keels of our fleet".	10
29	150	"Do you truly think a chain will stop the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard?" asked Callimachus.	10
29	155	I do not doubt that the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, in a short time, will follow the topaz".	10
29	184	"Ragnar Voskjard," I said, "would come with a fleet, not one or two ships, and forty men".	10
29	185	"Empty grain ships, towed, their identity concealed in the darkness, might suggest such a fleet," mused Callisthenes.	10
29	225	"We are sent ahead, the scout ships of his fleet!" We had only four ships with us, and three were, substantially, empty.	10
29	227	"The fleet of Ragnar Voskjard is not due for ten days," called the man.	10
30	387	"I will take our fleet east on the river," said Policrates to Kliomenes.	10
31	120	I speculated that the fleet of Policrates was now abroad.	10
31	121	In his own hall, when his girls had finished with me, making me yield in his presence, his enemy, for the amusement of himself and his men, I had heard him, as he had spoken to Kliomenes, declare an intention to move his fleet east.	10
31	148	I conjectured the fleet had left.	10
31	149	Too, it seemed likely to me that Policrates would have accompanied the fleet.	10
31	150	Indeed, in his hall, I had gathered, from what I had heard, that the fleet was to set forth under his personal command.	10
32	87	I myself, in my unsuccessful ruse, betrayed, presumably by the Earth-girl slave, Peggy, had posed as a commander of scout ships, supposedly sent ahead by the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard.	10
33	9	"It was not necessary for you to have joined the fleet," said Callimachus.	10
33	40	"He is not with the fleet," said Callimachus.	10
33	46	Too, the fleet of Policrates is now east of Victoria, to prevent such ships from reinforcing us.	10
33	116	Yet we would miss him in the fray, should the Voskjard's fleet dare to approach the chain more directly.	10
33	145	"Too, it seems his fleet should have arrived at the chain by now, did it intend to do so".	10
33	184	"And it is estimated that the Voskjard's fleet numbers some fifty ships?" "Yes," said Callimachus.	10
33	191	"And the fleet of the Voskjard can, at will, attack at any given point".	10
33	203	Our defensive force, in effect, is the fleet of Port Cos".	10
33	204	"It is then, you feel," I said, apprehensively, "in effect some thirty ships, those of Port Cos, against the fleet of the Voskjard?" "Substantially so," agreed Callimachus.	10
33	238	"It is the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard," he said.	10

Book 16. (66 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	37	Even now, behind the shield of the northern fleet, it was not improbable that the ships of the southern fleet were proceeding unimpeded between the pylons.	10
6	158	Now, it seemed, they had failed, too, even to prevent the third fleet of the Voskjard from making an unimpeded entry into the waters east of the chain, from which position, of course, they could take the defensive fleet in the rear.	10
12	1	We Bid Welcome to the Voskjard's Fleet; The Courier of Ragnar Voskjard; The Fleet of Policrates "There must be fifty ships in the channel," said Callimachus, snapping shut the glass of the Builders.	10
3	193	If our fleet did not have time to group, or if our flank were turned, it would be indeed a tragic day for our forces upon the Vosk.	10
3	194	The planks of our fleet might litter the river to the wharves of Turmus.	10
4	29	The chain could now be cut with impunity, behind the shield of the Voskjard's northern fleet, that now some half pasang off our bows.	10
4	31	It was speculated, however, that the southern fleet was larger even than the northern, which had been successful in its strike against the chain.	10
4	61	"The fleet is moving," he said.	10
4	127	The enemy fleet had reformed.	10
4	157	The ships of Ar's Station, with the fleet, seemed more round ships than long ships.	10
4	164	The Voskjard's fleet was in confusion.	10
4	177	"The fleet is coming about!" cried a man.	10
4	178	To be sure, amidst the wreckage and crowding, and even grinding against the chain, the fleet of the Voskjard had managed to come about.	10
4	181	The rams of the Voskjard's fleet swung toward the Tais and her sisters.	10
4	186	"The fleet of the Voskjard has been marshaled," said a man next to me.	10
4	198	We, the line of our ships, had caught the fleet of the Voskjard in its right flank, as it had turned to confront and punish the Tais and her sisters of Port Cos.	10
4	199	This audacious act on our part had taken the fleet of the Voskjard by surprise.	10
4	230	"The enemy fleet is marshaling," said a man.	10
4	243	"Am I then to abandon the fleet?" asked Callimachus.	10
4	257	I noted the approach of the Voskjard's fleet, the ships moving in pairs, with more than a hundred yards between the pairs.	10
5	93	"But," I said, anxiously, "was the rendezvous with the Voskjard's fleet at his holding or was it in the river?" "What difference does it make?" asked a man.	10
6	1	We Await Support from Callisthenes; It does not Come; The Third Fleet of the Voskjard; Again We Sound Our Battle Horns We saw the Leda of Port Cos taken full in the hull.	10
6	47	In moments we had drawn alongside of the Olivia, which had been the flagship of the fleet from Ar's Station, commanded by Aemilianus.	10
6	48	She and the Portia had been the last of the original ten ships which had constituted that small fleet.	10
6	53	We listened to the signal horns from the Voskjard's fleet.	10
6	63	Our fifth ship, completing our tiny fleet, was the Hermione, which had been taken as a prize.	10
6	95	"Stroke!" And the five ships of our small line sallied forth to meet the stately advance of the Voskjard's fleet.	10
6	123	"The fleet of the Voskjard approaches!" "Callisthenes!" we cried, joyfully.	10
6	127	Callimachus, alone on the deck of the stem castle, with a glass of the Builders, surveyed the fleet, flung out across the horizon, advancing astern.	10
6	145	But they could not approach from the south in such force, for the south was guarded by the fleet of Callisthenes.	10
6	146	To bring a fleet in such force through the cut chain would seem impossible.	10
7	58	The infantrymen of Ar, in their numbers, inordinate for the vessels involved, and their skills in war, uncommon on the river, stiffened the resistance of the remnants of our small fleet.	10
8	140	More importantly, I gathered from her response what I had been truly after, that the Tamira had made her rendezvous with the Voskjard's fleet in the western Vosk, and not at his holding.	10
8	144	"The rendezvous of the Tamira with the fleet of the Voskjard," I said, "took place then not at his holding, but in the river".	10
8	382	Through a gap in the pirate fleet, I could see that the beleaguered, desperate ships of the defenders fought on, stoutly.	10
8	396	I looked again, out the window, at the ships of the pirate fleet, and at the defenders, and then I returned to the table, and sat before it.	10
8	400	That the defenders had lasted this long was a function largely of two factors, first, of the crowding of the pirate fleet which made it difficult for them to bring their rams and shearing blades into play, and, secondly, the unusually large numbers, and skill, of the soldiers of Ar who had been tran...	10
8	402	I suspected then he might not be with his own fleet, that it might be under the command of a lesser man.	10
8	412	It was at this time that I heard the signal horns of the pirate fleet.	10
8	415	As I had thought the pirate fleet was now drawing back.	10
9	27	I did not think Reginald would be quick to report his loss to the fleet commander.	10
9	77	"It is not yet time to alert and confuse the fleet".	10
10	24	I did not know if the courier would be expected to travel with the fleet of the Voskjard or not.	10
10	58	Following the Tuka and the Tais, by prearranged plan, we in the Tina had then rowed southward along the chain until we came to the point where the northward-moving portion of the Voskjard's fleet, that which we had once mistaken for the support vessels of Callisthenes, had cut the chain.	10
10	66	When picked up by the vessels of the pirate fleet, turning westward, having discovered the ruse of the Olivia, they would report what they had heard.	10
10	68	It would be assumed by those of the pirate fleet that we, if we could make it west of the chain, would surely fly to one of the western towns for refuge.	10
10	72	By the time such a force might be raised in the river towns, of course, the fleet of the Voskjard would have reached the holding of Policrates, reinforced it, and participated in the development of new security arrangements.	10
10	79	By dusk we had come to the northern break in the chain, that produced by the second portion of the Voskjard's fleet.	10
10	82	While vessels followed our putative course, and the balance of the pirate fleet, regrouping and repairing injuries, waited upon their return, we sped, in alternating shifts, day and night, toward the holding of Policrates.	10
10	114	Miles of Vonda had represented us, of course, as being the advance ships of the Voskjard's fleet.	10
10	213	The fleet of Policrates, as I knew, some forty ships, was abroad, to prevent reinforcements from the eastern towns, should they appear, from proceeding westward to assist at the defense of the chain.	10
11	227	"When do you think the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard will arrive at the holding," he asked.	10
12	7	His appearance on the wall, Callimachus and I had speculated, might allay suspicions in the advancing fleet.	10
12	16	"The fleet approaches," said a man.	10
12	54	The Voskjard, I suspected, was not with the fleet.	10
12	55	I had, indeed, earlier speculated from pirate strategies that the fleet had been under the command not of the Voskjard, but of a lesser man.	10
12	59	He himself could join the fleet later.	10
12	73	The Tamira, we were informed, had been sunk while valiantly defending herself against an attacking fleet of a dozen ships.	10
12	190	But, later, when the southern fleet of Port Cos did not support us in the battle, continually denying us her succor, in spite of our desperate need, I became at last fully confident of the justice of my suspicions.	10
12	199	"What were done with the ships of Port Cos, your fleet?" asked Callimachus of Callisthenes.	10
12	202	On the ruse of undertaking a mission of reconnaissance I then joined the fleet of the Voskjard".	10
12	227	"The fleet of Policrates!" we heard, from the height of the wall.	10
12	228	"The fleet of Policrates is at the mouth of the channel!" "Bring our forces, and their prisoners, within the holding!" called Callimachus.	10
12	234	Callimachus and I, on the wall, regarded the fleet of Policrates at the mouth of the channel.	10
14	6	He had come from the west on the river to rendezvous with his fleet and the ships of Policrates.	10
16	224	They must needs be the fleet which Callisthenes had commanded, and had withdrawn to Port Cos, not permitting them to engage in the battle at the chain.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	110	There is a joke in the city that Port Kar must have the greatest merchant fleet on Gor, greater than even those of Cos and Tyros combined, given the frequency with which our corsairs encounter the vessels of alleged compatriots.	10
2	133	, Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar, a sea battle took place in which the fleet of Port Kar defeated the fleets of Cos and Tyros.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	42	Squat, brilliant Chung and tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland, had fought with us against the fleets of Cos and Tyros, participating with us in the victory of the Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Council of Captains; they remained in Port Kar as high captains, admir...	10
2	644	He had been with the fleet on the 25th of Se'Kara.	10
21	563	Once, long ago, I had sacked a treasure fleet bound from Tyros to Cos, intended for Lurius.	10
22	209	In Brundisium's harbor, the joint invasion fleet is to be peacefully received.	10
22	335	I stepped away from the grassy height from which we surveyed the vast, distant fleet.	10
22	378	It was a vast fleet.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	141	I had seen the invasion fleet entering upon its peaceful harborage at Brundisium.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	7	"It is here that the Cosian fleet landed," said another.	10
10	364	Were there fields down there? Rivers? Forests? Would I be able to see the shadow of our passage, fleet and rippling, on the terrain below? What was the nature of the beast, or bird, that drew this carriage so swiftly through the sky? I wished I could see.	10

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	353	"We are an innocent trading fleet," he said.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	277	Survivors of Ar's Station, which had been Ar's major bastion on the Vosk, including many women and children, had been rescued from the piers of the burning port by a fleet of unidentified ships, ships with which the Cosians in the north had not had the forces to deal.	10
1	368	Also, of course, the Cosians were presumably moving toward either Brundisium, which had been the port of entry of their invasion fleet, or south to join Myron in the vicinity of Torcadino, where Dietrich of Tarnburg, the mercenary, lay at bay, like a larl in his den.	10
40	143	Indeed, it had been the port of entry for the Cosian invasion fleet.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	26	Over a short distance they can outrun fleet game.	10

Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	115	"What strange things?" "The fleet has departed," said Grendel.	10
25	9	Too, many of the guards of the cylinder, and most of its military personnel, had departed with the fleet, on whatever dark mission it had embarked.	10
26	22	"You know of the departure of the fleet," said Cabot.	10
26	146	"When the fleet departed the locks were sealed".	10
28	71	"It could be," said Peisistratus, "that Agamemnon is unsure of the extent of the conspiracy, and will thus wait for the return of the fleet".	10
33	56	"Indeed, by now the world may be abundantly repopulated, with numerous reinforcements for Agamemnon, the fleet having returned".	10
35	101	"The fleet has returned," said Cabot.	10
35	114	"The fleet has returned," said Cabot.	10
37	7	These were survivors of the fleet's apparent disaster, and although some of these Kurii doubtless suspected, and at times even noted, the passage of Cabot and the slave, they did not challenge or attack them.	10
40	114	It boomed within the cylinder, and must have carried even to the camps of the fleet survivors, to the remoter villages, and perhaps even to the shores of Lake Fear.	10
52	9	As may be recalled, the defeated forces of Agamemnon, the mariners who returned in the remnants of his ruined fleet, following his catastrophic, ill-starred attack on another of the worlds, had been denied access to the habitats.	10
52	25	"Yes," said Grendel, "but one was most feared by Agamemnon, one whom he wished to deal with first, one whom he long pretended to befriend, but one whom he suspected well comprehended his ambitions and machinations, one whom he then conveyed from the world, ignominiously, daring to do no more at the ...	10
53	94	* * * * It had been three days after Cabot and Lord Grendel had visited some of the abandoned camps of the survivors of the fleet's disaster, those who had returned to the world.	10
56	194	"Those from the small camps, the survivors of the fleet's disaster, in their hundreds, are now with us, and have armed themselves with the weapons of our foes.	10
56	221	The Kurii of Agamemnon had not only been taken unawares, but had been found themselves trapped between the fleet's survivors and the forces under the command of Lord Grendel.	10
56	261	Mitonicus, who had commanded the fleet's survivors, was a minor admiral.	10
57	60	"Mariners intervened, survivors from the fleet's ruin," said Cabot.	10
58	17	"His ambition is insatiable," said Grendel, "even after the disaster of the fleet".	10
69	68	"Those forces which attacked the world, after the defeat of the fleet, and seemed to withdraw, only drew back to turn about and, when not expected, renew more vigorously the attack which, before, had been little more than a feint".	10
69	112	"But then terror seized all," said another, "for locks were blown and swarming into the world, to the rolling of drums and the blast of war horns, from a hundred ports, were warriors from the world which Agamemnon had menaced, and whose fleet, so beautifully generaled, had decimated ours".	10
69	114	"Surely, surprised, taken unawares, all would be slain by that fleet's general," said another.	10
77	126	Doubtless Cabot wished that the slave might have reached the safety of the forest, a desiderated outcome, where she might, a fleet, collared human female, have managed to elude a lame Kur, but he was not surprised when she failed to do so.	10

Book 29. (4 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	125	"It is intermittent, depending on the needs of the arsenal, of the fleet".	10
3	516	One of the glorious sights of Gor is the wheeling, the maneuvering and flight, of such cavalries in the sky, a lovely sight, in its way not unlike that of a fleet of lateen-rigged galleys abroad on gleaming Thassa, the sea.	10
26	156	Such wealth, if any man might possess it, might purchase a fleet, a city.	10
26	249	It is not unknown to me that not all ships cleave seas, the fluid roads, but that some, like tarns, sail over mountains, are fleet amongst the clouds, spread their sails not upon the liquid fields, but in the sky, that they dare to venture upon the wind roads themselves".	10

Book 30. (22 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	57	The patrol fleet was being expanded, that the waters between Tyros and Cos might be better secured, better protected against unregulated shipping, this posing an unwelcome, yea, unacceptable, threat to the welfare and profits of our merchantry.	10
13	119	"Lord Nishida thinks we are being held in place," he said, "whilst a fleet is moving toward us".	10
16	1	The Warning Ship; The Small Boats; Assassins; The Fleet of Lord Yamada I let the glass of the Builders, in its sling, drop to my hip.	10
16	300	"It is the fleet of Lord Yamada," said Lord Okimoto.	10
16	340	The pursuing fleet of Lord Yamada had soon fallen behind.	10
16	358	"Because," said he, "I think the fleet of Lord Yamada will fear to follow".	10
17	38	Did they know that war had been done on this very deck, now sanded and smoothed clean? Did they know of the fleet of Lord Yamada? Did they understand that these waters, so glasslike, so serene, might be fraught with peril? I supposed not.	10
17	215	"At least," I said, "we are no longer pursued by the fleet of Lord Yamada".	10
17	248	"If you were the admiral of the fleet of Lord Yamada," said Cabot, "and you outnumbered your enemy ten or more to one, would you not press on, hoping to bring about an engagement, even if weeks later?" "Yes," I said, "I would press on".	10
17	249	"And yet the fleet soon desisted in its pursuit".	10
19	19	My conversation with Tarl Cabot, alluded to earlier, having to do with the fleet of Lord Yamada, and such, had occurred on the third day of the fifth week past the fourth passage hand.	10
19	79	There was no sign of the fleet of Lord Yamada.	10
24	19	We had seen no sign of the fleet of Lord Yamada.	10
24	23	Treasure in hand, from the Vine Sea, what more was to be gained on a dangerous shore, at the World's End? The orientation of the great ship, bow to sea, would allow it, should the fleet of Lord Yamada be sighted, to slip its moorings and escape the cove, to the security of the open sea.	10
25	35	We had seen nothing of the fleet of Lord Yamada.	10
25	36	Were we in the vicinity of the continent, where the climate was less mild, I might have supposed the fleet had retired to its base, or port, for the fall and winter.	10
29	30	Why then might it not return? Too, who knew if the fleet of Lord Yamada might not soon appear on the horizon, and close the mouth of the cove, closing the door to escape and precluding the eventual exploitation of the hitherto garnered riches? I continued to press through the crowd, trying to reach ...	10
31	14	Were they not vulnerable, outside the walls? Might there not be bandits? Might not the fleet of Lord Yamada appear, unexpectedly, or might not forces be landed from it, somewhere in the vicinity, which might raid the ship? Indeed, did not soldiers of Lord Yamada even now camp within sight of our wal...	10
32	92	"It is the fleet of Lord Yamada," said a man.	10
35	38	The fleet of Lord Yamada was approaching the cove, when the great ship slipped away".	10
35	41	"It was not in the cove when the fleet of Lord Yamada made its appearance," he said.	10
36	213	"There would be the danger, as well," said the captain, "that the ship might fall prize to the fleet of Lord Yamada".	10

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	7	On the other hand, I have here seen disputes resolved with blades, fleet tabuk felled with arrows, men confronting larls with no more than spears.	10
35	70	Then, with a Kur Gor, so to speak, with large amounts of smuggled weaponry in place, the way would be cleared for a massive invasion fleet from the remote habitats, one unlikely to be significantly deterred by Priest-Kings.	10

Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	477	Better to transport troops, I thought, would be smaller ships, a fleet of such.	10
15	478	Who would care to risk an army, perhaps a war, by entrusting it to a single mount, to but one vehicle, to but one vessel? But Thassa, I supposed, vast Thassa, might lift her hand, and smash a fleet as well as a single vessel, and, I suspected, a mighty vessel might brave her wrath where a hundred co...	10
46	102	Why should I not be? The fleet, graceful tabuk, for example, is not the ponderous, clumsy, lumbering, shaggy bosk, not the gigantic, tearing, voracious lari.	10

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	194	Once, I had heard, a large fleet, an invasion fleet, made landfall there, from the island Ubarates of Cos and Tyros.	10
21	13	Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against the tiny urt's ...	10
63	156	We cried out in fear for there was a sudden sound, striking us like a bludgeon, a sudden snap of wings, great wings, not twenty feet from us, over us, air rushing about us, buffeting us, we covered for an instant by a vast, fleet shadow.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	38	"How else could she outfit and supply a fleet for the invasion of Cos and Tyros?" "I, too, smell smoke," cried another slave.	10
11	50	As the story goes, Cos and Tyros, some years ago, built, equipped, manned, and launched a mighty fleet, to destroy Port Kar, to be done at last with "the Scourge of Thassa".	10
11	51	This fleet was not only massive and formidable, but was generally seen as invincible.	10
30	100	What play, what declamation, what dance, what song, what song drama will be awarded a city's prize, a golden tripod and its sack of coins? Who is most skilled with the bow, the peasant bow or the riflelike crossbow, or the casting of darts or javelins? And races are popular, those of slaves, male an...	10
37	100	Such garmenture attests to importance, dignity, station, honor, and display; too, it may intrigue the curious, appraising male to speculate about the wonders and treasures it may conceal; but it does little for freedom of movement, say, on occasions in which a fleet departure might be advisable.	10
46	22	In addition, a convoy of merchant ships, the grain fleet, five ships from Brundisium, guarded by three longships, were moored in the arsenal harbor.	10

Book 36. (148 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
59	34	The Theran fleet under Nicomachos, anticipating land action on Chios near Mytilene, had embarked with numerous Cosian regulars aboard, which allowed frequent shifts of oarsmen, an advantage which the corsair fleet had itself hitherto exploited, this now, however, enabling the Theran fleet to equal, ...	10
7	45	"I do not have the fleet of Cos at my disposal," he said, "only the fleet of the Farther Islands, only twenty heavy ships, and several smaller vessels, all diversely oared".	10
7	181	How much better for us that the authorities of Thera, or Cos, whose legal charge it was, utilizing the weapon of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, some twenty ships or so, should locate, engage, and destroy the corsair fleet.	10
36	130	Following the withdrawal of the corsair fleet from Daphna, after the Daphna incident, many mercenaries left the corsair fleet, and few enlisted to take their places.	10
58	228	"But, happily, Nicomachos departed with the entire fleet of the Farther Islands, eager to wipe the fleet of Bosk of Port Kar from the sea, and thereby restore himself to station and favor with Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos".	10
59	32	"Due to the valor and skill of the noble Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, all hail to the sublime Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar, predator to shipping, burner of villages, ravager of towns and cities, has but recently been surp...	10
59	35	Further, the position of the Theran fleet cut the corsair fleet off from its base in Sybaris, and the width of its line prevented an escape to the side.	10
59	36	The corsair fleet then, fleeing toward Chios, had either been caught near Chios or had tried to land on Chios and, encountering the hostile, armed Peasantry on the beaches, fresh from Mytilene and its vicinity, had put once more to sea, where it eventually fell to the pursuing Theran fleet, say, som...	10
59	394	"How came it about," I asked, "that Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, encountered the corsair fleet near Mytilene on Chios?" "I do not know," he said.	10
4	61	How could six or more ships, in essence a small fleet, continue to elude discovery? It seemed indeed, as though they vanished, only to reappear again, unexpectedly, with ravaging and carnage.	10
5	69	"The six ships were undoubtedly the fleet of the false Bosk," said Thurnock.	10
5	85	"We have seen no sign of the pirate fleet in our wake since early morning," said Clitus.	10
6	343	"But they have failed hitherto even to encounter the fleet of the so-called Bosk of Port Kar," said Clitus, "let alone engage and destroy it".	10
7	3	"He is of a smitten village, Nicosia, on Chios?" said Nicomachos, dark-haired, and impatient of manner, First Captain of Sybaris, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, Thera, Chios, and Daphna, leaning forward, an action which caused the medallion and chain of his office ...	10
7	15	"To seek clues as to the location of the piratical fleet captained by the notorious Bosk of Port Kar".	10
7	27	Four times the fleet of the Farther Islands itself has put to sea".	10
7	29	"How can a raiding, predatory fleet as large as that which I, and doubtless others, have described continue to escape detection?" I asked.	10
7	32	"It seems so," said Nicomachos, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.	10
7	145	"And I have heard rumors," said Archelaos, unpleasantly, "that even the First Captain of Sybaris, Nicomachos, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, has profited from such clandestine emoluments".	10
7	155	"The pirate fleet appears from nowhere," said Nicomachos, "strikes, and vanishes".	10
7	171	Archelaos, governor of Thera, and Nicomachos, First Captain of Sybaris, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, rose, too, to their feet.	10
8	50	We now know that one or the other, or both, of the High Officers of Sybaris, either the governor of Thera or the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, or both, command the foe or are high in the command of he who does so.	10
8	51	Too, with this advancement, we have now solved the mystery of the vanishing corsair fleet.	10
8	58	"Ships! Ships! I make out four, no, five, no, six!" "The corsair fleet!" said Clitus.	10
8	65	"I think the fleet, over the past few days, has been perusing nearby settlements, for it would have been supposed we would not be far from Sybaris.	10
8	95	It lies within range of the corsair fleet.	10
8	117	I considered the rhythm of the oars in the corsair fleet.	10
14	7	We were a day from Daphna, following our destruction of the raider fleet.	10
15	7	"Perhaps a fleet of round ships was somehow in the vicinity, perhaps blown off course, and responded to beacons of distress".	10
15	9	"The area is barren, it is not on lines of normal shipping, there was no storm, no evidence of a passing fleet.	10
15	35	New ships will be provided, perhaps even from the naval fleet of the Farther Islands.	10
18	172	"This year," said Sakim, "Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, is expected to be in attendance".	10
18	182	"But not the whole fleet?" I said.	10
21	1	I Visit with Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.	10
21	2	"I know you," said Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, rising, angrily.	10
21	35	"I fear the governor is less quick than the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".	10
21	39	"Rumors suggest," I said, "that even you, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, sometimes accrue profits in wily ways".	10
21	65	"If," I said, "you could encounter and destroy the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar".	10
21	70	It is here that I hope to obtain information which will allow me to meet his fleet and wipe it from the sea.	10
21	82	Did not the fleet of the Farther Islands seem inert much of the time, and had not its searches for the raiders proved invariably futile? Few thieves arrest themselves.	10
21	95	"Should you be successful in acquiring information pertaining to Bosk of Port Kar or his fleet, I trust that you will relay it to me as amply and quickly as possible".	10
21	156	Too, could I really suppose that the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, the First Captain of Sybaris, High Officer of Cos, could not tell the difference between a decent wine and a ka-la-na worthy at best to fortify common kal-da?" I then took both goblets and emptied them into the dirt fl...	10
22	52	Even in Sybaris I heard tell of The Village of Flowing Gold, and the discomfiture of the fleet of Bosk of Port Kar".	10
22	71	"Vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands?" I said.	10
22	76	The destroyed corsair fleet had possessed four ships of fifty-oars and two of thirty-oars.	10
22	77	Now there were seven enemy ships, each of fifty-oars, a far more formidable fleet than the one we had managed to destroy by trickery.	10
22	78	Moreover, if the ships were out of Telnus, the greatest of the harbors on Cos, it seemed clear that Lurius of Jad himself, the Ubar of Cos, had invested resources in replacing the corsair fleet.	10
22	81	Why would Lurius interest himself in such unimportant, distant matters? The winnings of the corsair fleet, with its plundering of small villages, and the sacking and sinking of an occasional merchantman, could bring no more than tarsk-bits, so to speak, into the treasury of Cos.	10
22	82	"I fear," I said, "the corsair fleet, and a more formidable one this time, is now at Mytilene".	10
22	99	"Perhaps Ctesippus, Laios, and their confreres were discussing just that small fleet," I said.	10
23	37	On the morning the corsair fleet, with its seven ships, was to depart the harbor at Mytilene in pursuit of the three Brundisium merchantmen, superstitious terror gripped savage crews.	10
24	10	"The corsairs have a more formidable fleet than ever.	10
25	21	"I have come here," I said, "thinking about the corsair fleet.	10
25	22	Will it be here? If not, where is it? Did it return here after an unsuccessful pursuit of the three merchantmen of Brundisium, or go elsewhere? Is it still at sea? Might it not return here? Might not this be its new base?" "The first fleet, disguised as merchantmen, lay to in the harbor at Sybaris,"...	10
25	25	"At least," I said, "we have determined that the corsair fleet is not at Mytilene".	10
27	54	We had burned the corsair fleet and left the corsairs themselves to perish, stranded in what may well be Daphna's most inhospitable region".	10
27	55	"We did not anticipate," said Thurnock, "that the corsairs would be somehow evacuated, nor that their destroyed fleet would be replaced by one even more formidable".	10
27	64	"Happenstance," said Clitus, "a passing fleet".	10
27	134	"The Hermione," I said, "—of the fleet of the corsairs".	10
27	171	"The fleet was vandalized, injured, and defiled, unbelievable so, and could not immediately leave port.	10
28	12	"I take it, Captain Glycon," said Melete, "that your ship, the Hermione, and the others of the corsair fleet, are properly positioned".	10
28	14	"As far as I know, there is no Captain Glycon and no ship, Hermione, and the corsair fleet, I would suppose, presumably disguised as merchantmen, is in the harbor at Sybaris".	10
29	14	The Dorna, in my view, was the match for any of the seven ships in the corsair fleet.	10
29	45	"You will sail into the jaws of a seven-headed monster, the seven ships of the corsair fleet".	10
29	238	It is true that our two ships, one of merely twenty oars, are grossly overmatched by the seven ships of the corsair fleet.	10
30	4	"The whole fleet," said Aktis.	10
30	11	Our best estimates of the enemy's strength, given the increase in ships, and the manning of the earlier fleet, was in the neighborhood of fifteen hundred.	10
32	70	The last third of the column and some remnants of the broken center hurried back to the beach, where the corsair fleet lay to, some forty or so yards offshore.	10
32	71	I later learned from some of my men who followed them, keeping apprised of their movements, that their plea to be taken aboard the fleet's ships was refused.	10
34	3	As once before, when scrutinizing the enemy, I, Thurnock, and some others, lay at the crest of a hill overlooking the beach and the seven ships of the corsair fleet.	10
34	5	"It seems," said Thurnock, "the fleet is still reluctant to take its raiders aboard and depart".	10
34	8	"I would have liked to hear the reports of the corsairs, given the recent incidents, and how they were received by the fleet's high command," said Clitus.	10
34	11	"I would be curious as to the high command of the fleet," said Thurnock, "who is in charge of the corsairs, and who leads them".	10
34	21	"That we do not know," I said, "perhaps it is Nicomachos, First Captain of Sybaris, a High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".	10
34	37	Consider the corsairs relaying that claim to their fleet.	10
34	93	"The fleet departs," said Aktis.	10
35	129	Thirdly, it could support the corsair fleet in action, interfering with attacked vessels, impeding movements, blocking escapes, even delivering reinforcements to the corsairs in the way of boarders equipped with grappling irons and scaling ladders".	10
35	158	Consider the corsair fleet, in its full strength, seven ships with crews, supplemented with mercenaries, accompanied by the Brigand Island, itself not only a transport for additional mercenaries, but conveying an arsenal of supplies and siege equipment".	10
35	174	"I would match Tab and the Dorna against any single ship of the corsair fleet," I said.	10
35	175	"But there are no isolated ships of the corsair fleet," said Thurnock.	10
36	126	Both Archelaos, governor of Thera, and Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, are patrons.	10
36	226	And, I suspected, given the currently limited success of the unified corsair fleet, which could no more scour the seas for victims than could a single ship, and the risks of now attacking villages, that it might be soon.	10
37	52	There are two harbors at the port of Sybaris, the great harbor, serving the city, and much of Thera, and the smaller harbor, the naval harbor, base of the vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.	10
37	53	From where we were, we could look across the harbor and see the low wall behind which several ships of the Fleet of the Farther Islands lay at anchor.	10
38	6	Here he is only the commander of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, of only some twenty heavy vessels, and a miscellany of minor vessels.	10
38	11	"I do not know if it is unwarranted or not," said Thurnock, "but to despise so high a post on Thera, the Admiral of a Fleet, suggests a mighty vanity and an ambition that might fly with tarns".	10
38	30	"How could he search so long for the corsair fleet and somehow never find it? He does not want to find it.	10
39	1	I Fail to Contact Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands "Away, be off, both of you," said the officer of the guard.	10
39	7	We were at the high, heavily barred gate to the Cosian naval base on Thera, the base of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.	10
39	64	"The corsair fleet," I said, "if it remains united, can move no faster than its slowest ship".	10
39	65	"You are not thinking of engaging the corsair fleet at sea, are you?" said Thurnock.	10
40	29	"I do not think your crews are of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".	10
41	70	On what we might call the first day of the siege, the seven ships of the corsair fleet closed the harbor at Mytilene.	10
44	55	Doubtless an account of such episodes had reached even to the command tents of the enemy, and even to the command cabins of the corsair fleet.	10
47	2	Within two days, the mercenaries, surrounded and beleaguered, harassed, shut off from the countryside, and sustaining dreadful losses, had withdrawn to the seven ships of the corsair fleet.	10
47	10	The corsair ships did not risk coming within range of the peasant archery but sent forth a small fleet of longboats to ferry their mercenaries to the safety of the ships.	10
48	214	"The corsairs' living island, the Brigand Island, may be about," I said, "too low to see, with cots of vulos which will home to at least the flagship of the corsair fleet".	10
48	217	"Surely the corsair fleet has fled," said Clitus.	10
48	218	"Were I Admiral of that fleet," I said, "shamed and disgruntled, eager for blood, aching for vengeance, with seven fine ships, not one of which has borne a scratch, I would not have done so".	10
49	69	But one might well have assumed, mistakenly, in the heat of the moment, given an appearance by the enemy, that the corsair fleet intended to attack the beach".	10
49	71	"As Tab and Sakim left no message of any sort to explain their departure, we may infer that the appearance of the corsair fleet was sudden and unexpected, perhaps emerging from darkness in the vicinity of dawn, a situation calling for instant action, getting the Dorna and Tesephone to sea before an ...	10
49	139	"Mercenaries suffered grievous losses," said Clitus, "and soon, as they could, under fire, those who could, sought to avail themselves of the hospitality of the corsair fleet".	10
49	190	"You will dally some days," asked Tab, "hoping the corsair fleet will grow impatient and depart?" "Possibly," I said.	10
49	191	"I do not think the corsair fleet will be so accommodating," said Tab.	10
50	36	"At least," said Clitus, "the corsair fleet is still far behind".	10
50	69	The corsair fleet constituted a formidable foe at sea not only in virtue of its size, its number of vessels, but in virtue of its number of men, this enhancing its capacity both to board and resist boarding, and to mount frequent shifts of oarsmen, this enabling the vessel to maintain a high rate of...	10
50	96	"The danger is the corsair fleet," said Clitus, "should it detect us, given its armament and its presumed changes of oarsmen".	10
50	98	"The corsair fleet is faraway," said Clitus.	10
50	111	"But, Captain," said Sakim, "that, in itself, given the height of the stem decks of the corsair fleet, and the glass of the Builders, will make us visible from pasangs away".	10
50	115	We cannot in wisdom, the two of us, engage the corsair fleet.	10
50	132	"The Brigand Island and the corsair fleet are both between us and Mytilene," I said.	10
51	6	"Where are the other four?" I had hoped to lead the corsair fleet, all seven fifty-oared ships, away from the Dorna.	10
51	40	"I do not think the High Admiral of the fleet will be aboard one of those vessels, each surveying the Tesephone like a hungry sleen eyeing a cornered tabuk.	10
51	208	"It may have already led the balance of the corsair fleet, four ships, to the Dorna," I said.	10
52	57	"Dear Captain," I said, "I had hoped, mast high, posing as a tempting prey, to draw the corsair fleet away from you.	10
52	63	"Four ships of the corsair fleet followed you," said Sakim.	10
52	124	The raised mast of the first ship, which doubtless had the Admiral of the corsair fleet on board, had signaled the readiness for action.	10
53	209	"At the first sign of hostility we shall cast it into the sea!" There seemed some confusion on the stem deck of the nearest vessel, which I took, mistakenly, as it turned out, to be the flagship of the corsair fleet.	10
53	217	I had thought it would have been Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, posted in Sybaris.	10
53	218	Was he not a familiar of Archelaos, governor of Thera? Would he not be the plausible commander of the corsair fleet? "Laios?" I asked.	10
53	223	Thus I conjecture that the ship sunk by the hith, the sinking of which Ctesippus survived, was the designated flagship of the corsair fleet".	10
53	241	We watched a longboat enter the water and begin to make its way back between enemy vessels to the farthest ship back, the presumed flagship of the corsair fleet.	10
53	253	"I do not think the fleet will care to leave him behind".	10
55	68	"That ship," I said, "will be the ears and eyes of the corsair fleet.	10
55	70	It, by signals, will remain in contact with the main body of the fleet, the four ships held in reserve".	10
56	13	"The observation ship of the corsairs, forward from the balance of the fleet, is closer now," said Clitus.	10
56	100	"It wishes to join its fleet," said Thurnock.	10
56	101	"I do not think the fleet will be pleased about that," I said.	10
56	123	"The island gone, the corsair fleet will set itself to rescue survivors," said Clitus.	10
57	3	Following the sinking of the forward ship, or observation ship, by the maddened living island, which we commonly spoke of as the "Brigand Island," the corsair fleet was reduced to four vessels, two of which were now drawing close, one to attempt drawing alongside the port side of the Dorna, and the ...	10
58	148	Which of the enemy ships, I wondered, now served as the enemy fleet's flagship? The position of the four enemy ships was now as follows.	10
58	199	"I count twenty," I said, "every ship in the fleet of the Farther Islands".	10
58	201	"Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, returned from patrol, and received my message," I said.	10
58	203	"Where he might encounter the corsair fleet," I said.	10
58	210	"I hoped Nicomachos would return sooner from his patrol and encounter the corsair fleet at Mytilene," I said.	10
58	217	"You learned in Sybaris that the corsair fleet would attack Mytilene, naturally enough to seize the wealth accrued from the fair," said Sakim.	10
58	225	Nicomachos, on the other hand, would understand the true import of the message, which was to deliver to him the location of the corsair fleet".	10
58	227	"Presumably arriving after the destruction of Mytilene and the withdrawal of the corsair fleet," I said.	10
58	259	"It would not have been well had the Fleet of the Farther Islands passed us, unknowingly," I said.	10
58	264	"We would not wish to miss the triumph of Nicomachos, naval hero, victor over the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar," I said.	10
59	153	"It is not every day," said a fellow near me, "that the fleet of the notorious Bosk of Port Kar is sunk and its very commander, the cruel and monstrous Bosk of Port Kar himself, is apprehended".	10
60	201	"I did not think that the commanding officer of the corsair fleet would be," I said.	10
62	33	He will have his ceremony, and receive his decoration, and then, to his dismay, be put to what amounts to exile, be consigned to practical banishment, be sent to be again Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".	10
62	74	"Have you detected a foreign fleet in your waters?" I asked.	10
62	77	"Who," asked Archelaos, "sped the coordinates of the corsair fleet to Nicomachos? Who led him at just the right moment to the waters of Mytilene?" "Do you not conjecture implausibly, recklessly?" I asked.	10
63	37	"The Admiral of a mighty fleet," said Bombastico.	10
63	74	"In a few days," said Clitus, "I expect Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, to return to Thera".	10
63	75	"The fleet of Cos," I said, "is doubtless commanded by some sycophant of Lurius of Jad".	10